Gas Engineering Expert Witnesses
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Gas engineering expert witness candidates are typically licensed professional engineers with expertise and extensive experience in gas pipeline safety, energy strategy, drilling, and/or in the natural gas or petroleum industries.
Gas engineering involves wells, pumps, and drilling, and gas engineers are directly involved with the extraction, processing, and transportation of natural gas or petroleum. Gas engineering specialists are often sought after for cases involving product liability, failure analysis project, environmental issues, intellectual property disputes, catastrophic incidents, natural gas regulatory matters, and assisting investigators with an accident investigation.
Litigation support by a gas engineering expert witness could include arbitration, deposition, an expert report, expert opinion, expert testimony, and courtroom testimony. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request an expert with prior expert witness testimony experience. In addition, clients may seek a gas or petroleum engineer for pre-litigation consulting work.
Cahn Litigation Services has been approached by numerous clients to locate expert witnesses, on behalf of either the plaintiff or defendant, that can support gas engineering matters. The chosen expert witness chosen could be actively involved with an industry organization such the American Society of Gas Engineers (ASGS), Natural Gas Council, the US Oil & Gas Association, the American Gas Association (AGA), Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE), and/or the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA). Whether the case involves hydraulic fracturing, drilling, fracking, or reservoir engineering, Cahn Litigation has the experience to turn a search for an expert witness search around quickly. The firm has an earned reputation for providing candidates suited to each unique project.
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Gas Engineering Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Gas Engineering experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Gas Engineering landscape.
Expert Witness #261284
This expert began a career in the oil and gas industry, where this expert worked as an Engineer in the Materials Technology Group diagnosing corrosion and water treating issues in upstream production facilities. This expert then became a plant engineer at a large gas processing facility, where this expert was responsible for the support of various gas processing units and gas compression facilities.
This expert worked as a Process Engineer in the Process Engineering Division. This expert developed conceptual designs for onshore production facilities and pipelines to process and transport high paraffin crude oil in arctic environments. This expert was assigned to a subsidiary where this expert performed general process troubleshooting and optimization, technical service work, and project economic analysis for offshore platforms.
This expert then moved to an assignment as Process Engineer on the gas offtake team, responsible for evaluating alternatives for transporting and processing gas. This expert was responsible for performance testing equipment, evaluating expansion projects and performing a rebuild on a fire-damaged offshore platform. This expert provided technical and project support to evaluate asset acquisition opportunities. This expert was responsible for leading a multi-discipline engineering team through the detailed engineering and construction phases of the project.
This expert became the Leader of New Developments, where this expert was responsible for providing concept selection and economic evaluation of all major projects. As part of this effort, this expert and team developed the Development and Production plans and worked closely with various governmental bodies and partner organizations to obtain approvals for these plans and for developing Field Development Plans. This expert became Project Manager for a multi-platform shallow water oil field development. This expert was responsible for leading a team through concept selection, pre-project planning, and scoping and bidding of the Front-End Engineering Design contract.
This expert implemented industry-standard project Front End Loading principles, practices and discipline to the asset by mandating the use of standard designs and a competitive bidding process to reduce costs. This expert developed contracting strategy to reduce costs and execution cycle time while leveraging company resources to maximum benefit, and instituted procedures to ensure safety and integrity of new facilities, and incorporated procurement and planning into the team.
This expert was responsible for completing construction and the start-up of a major gas plant designed to recover methane and helium from a high-acid gas feed stream. This expert also completed a study to determine the cost and schedule to replace the existing gas plant with a Selexol process designed to recover carbon dioxide (CO2) and reject hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from the feed gas. This expert began a consulting career, where this expert had a variety of diverse assignments involving insurance claims, construction disputes, gas transmission issues, oil and gas field operational issues.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #252303
This expert has a Ph.D. and is a gas and oil engineer and expert witness with hands-on industry experience with large industry players. A former full professor of oil and gas engineering, this expert was department head of three departments of Petroleum and Geological Engineering during this expert's tenure. This expert holds multiple patents and is well published. This expert has significant experience as an expert witness in Fracking and other cases involving oil and gas engineering.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #255894
This expert brings to the table many years of experience in the areas of materials engineering, failure analysis and engineering investigations. This expert holds both a BS and MS in Materials Engineering. Specializing in the determination of root cause and problem resolution, with extensive experience designing and conducting field and laboratory testing, this expert's work has encompassed metallurgy, property/structure relationships, stress states and corrosion of both ferrous and non-ferrous materials from across a broad range of industries. Much of this expert's background centers around the areas of materials characterization, fractography, metallography and mechanical testing.
Although this expert's work has supported a broad spectrum of industries, this expert has worked with natural gas suppliers/distributors for most of this expert's career. This expert's work within the natural gas industry has been generally associated with large, catastrophic incidents, with state regulatory agencies involved, where this expert was tasked with identifying root cause. However, this expert has also been involved with evaluation and replacement programs, including the fit-for-service evaluation of cast iron pipes sections removed from existing lines.
This expert has provided litigation support to select clients for many years, with this expert's first project assisting a subrogation specialist successfully resolving a dispute regarding the fracture of a cast iron fire hydrant line that flooded the bottom floor of a building. This expert's litigation support clients have represented a wide range of industries, including natural gas. This expert has been involved with over 100 litigated or pre-litigation matters, and has provided deposition testimony approximately thirteen times.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #261260
This expert brings to the table many years of engineering, operations, and commercial experience in the energy industry, including refining, chemicals and natural gas processing. This expert has advised producers, midstream service providers and private equity firms in evaluating acquisitions and grass roots investments. This expert has analyzed royalty payments and associated deductions for oil and natural gas production and developed unbundling cost allocations for natural gas processing and transportation systems. This expert has assisted with startups, troubleshooting and incident investigations for domestic and international facilities.
This expert has led audits of operating and measurement practices, including tests for adherence to contract requirements and standard practice. This expert has performed numerous valuations and due diligence associated with acquisition or divestiture and investigated accidents, including explosions, fires and injuries, for operating companies, as well as legal and insurance clients.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #244692
This expert has many years' experience in Oil & Gas Operations, and is a recognized pioneer in horizontal, Managed Pressure Drilling, Underbalanced and Casing Drilling. This expert is a registered Professional engineer, holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering, and is presently President and CEO of an Oil and Gas consulting firm. This expert presents frequently at industry conferences, and consistently works for clients that are well-known in the industry.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #261290
This expert began a career supporting operations in an integrated petrochemical complex. This expert held engineering as well as business management positions. This expert moved up the oil and gas value chain, into the midstream sector. As Manager of Natural Gas Engineering and Project Management, this expert led the development of a midstream infrastructure to support the growth in upstream operations a shale play. As Director of Engineering and Pipeline Operations, this expert led the pipeline design, engineering, construction, and commissioning as well as operations and maintenance activities. Development activities included pipeline, gathering, and storage assets for crude oil and gas. This expert draws on diverse experiences in the midstream and downstream sectors to provides analyses of both technical and economic issues and advise clients regarding interests in the energy sector.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #252262
This expert is a Petroleum and Drilling Engineering expert, bringing to the table many years of extensive experience in the areas of the operation and maintenance of oil drilling rigs. This expert has designed and supervised many drilling projects as an engineer, rig supervisor, and drilling manager. This expert’s expertise in rig design includes projects for new and refurbished onshore and offshore rigs, making this expert well aware of the various rig components, how they work, and issues that occur during a drilling operation. This expert is the Principal of a well-respected and highly successful consultancy specializing in oil and gas matters.
This expert designed well projects for various fields and zones within these oil and gas fields. This expert supervised drilling rigs for an ongoing development program and designed and oversaw drilling programs for a wide variety of development and exploration wells. This expert oversaw rig operations, new facilities installations, and production optimization. This expert designed development drilling programs to build on existing production, as well as oversaw expansion into new fields This expert has been in charge of drilling new wells, well completions, and increasing production of existing wells. This expert’s extensive experience with well operations has made this expert familiar with the equipment required to do the work.
This expert has an extensive litigation background having worked on over 50 cases while providing expert reports, depositions, and trial testimony.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #258975
This expert is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the head of a graduate automotive engineering program. This expert has been involved in advanced throttle control fuel injection/combustion systems for many years and was funded for multiple years in advanced gas turbine engine fuel injection and combustion systems. This expert has also been involved in optimizing fuel, throttle and fuel injection and combustion systems for racing and transportation applications. This expert has hands-on experience in dyno testing of complex throttle and fuel injection systems along with track testing and advanced computational modeling on supercomputing clusters. This expert supervises and advises graduate students who utilize custom fuel injected motorcycle engines to compete annually in an international competition. This expert is the recipient of numerous national awards, is well-published, presents at academic and industry conferences and has chaired over fifty technical sessions for the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in throttle and intake systems, direct injection spark and compression ignition engines, fuel injection and sprays, and other combustion fields of study. This expert has been deposed and testified in court over sixty times as an expert witness involving the design and analysis of advanced Mechanical Engineering systems. Further, this expert has been involved with numerous cases an expert related to intellectual property and patent litigation related to fuel injection systems, engine control and throttle systems.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #217419
This mechanical design and structural engineer expert holds a Ph.D. and P.E. credential and is an accomplished engineering executive with over 25 years of experience in failure analysis, mechanical systems, and forensic engineering. As a senior leader at a forensic engineering and investigation firm, this expert oversees complex technical investigations and provides strategic guidance on high-value litigation and international arbitration involving mechanical engineering, applied mechanics, aviation, and rail issues.
Widely recognized as a subject matter expert, this expert combines deep technical knowledge with practical field experience. This expert integrates mechanical design review, regulatory compliance, and engineering analysis to resolve disputes across infrastructure, energy, and transportation sectors. Areas of expertise include the mechanical behavior of materials, system reliability, and safety assessments, with experience involving pipelines, aircraft, industrial machinery, and power generation components.
The team includes a seasoned mechanical engineer with P.E., MS, MBA, and CFSE credentials and over 30 years of experience applying knowledge of mechanical systems to analyze failures, assess system reliability, and optimize condition monitoring programs across a wide range of industries. This expert's work spans critical infrastructure in refineries, power plants, chemical facilities, pipelines, and HVAC systems, often in support of litigation, product recalls, IP claims, and construction disputes. Technical expertise includes mechanical and piping systems such as valves, compressors, pumps, turbines, boilers, heat exchangers, and control systems. This expert is proficient in advanced tools and software for Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), SCADA systems, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), and diagnostics such as cavitation and water hammer analysis. In the oil and gas sector, this expert has conducted structural and fatigue analyses for downhole tools and led R&D initiatives related to component design and failure prevention. This expert has also developed procedures, delivered technical training, and authored best practices on wear, fatigue, and lifecycle integrity.
The team also includes a Senior Consultant with a Ph.D. and a strong background in material science and failure analysis across oil and gas, industrial, and biomaterials applications. This expert's expertise spans component failure investigation, material fatigue, metallurgical selection, and root cause analysis, with a focus on pipeline integrity and corrosion mitigation. This expert has led a wide range of technical projects, including the development of field testing and sampling protocols, the qualification of novel production chemistries, and the design and commissioning of field-testing and pigging facilities. This expert has worked extensively on in-line inspections (ILI) for pipeline compliance and the development of integrity management plans, particularly for internal and external corrosion threats in oil and gas operations. This expert combines deep technical knowledge with hands-on engineering insight, offering a comprehensive approach to solving complex problems in materials performance, failure prevention, and asset integrity.
This expert and the team are experienced expert witnesses and litigation consultants.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #268090
This gas processing expert is a PE who holds an M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and a B.Sc. in Engineering Science, with over 40 years of experience as a refinery and chemical engineer. This expert's expertise includes gas processing, refinery operations, project management, construction, transportation and storage, and the production, delivery, storage, and handling of heating oil.
This expert has worked in a wide range of operator and engineering roles in refinery settings and has hands-on experience with refinery movement, storage, contamination analysis, and identifying the source of operational issues. This expert's experience includes refinery matters, delayed coker issues, and issues relating to personal injury.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #269041
This process engineering, oil/gas expert has over 20 years of experience working in and consulting for the petroleum refining, gas processing, fertilizers, chemicals, alternative fuels, and engineering and construction industries, with work spanning process engineering design, research and development, field services, and project management.
This expert has experience in a broad range of refinery and petrochemical process operations, with extensive engineering and operations involvement with fluid catalytic cracking. This expert began as a design engineer developing engineering design packages for FCC process units, then worked in field services as a technical advisor and completed over 25 international field assignments in over 15 countries across refining process technologies, including multiple FCC units. This expert was responsible for inspection of installed process piping and equipment, operations training, commissioning, and performance testing. This expert's research and development experience includes development of a xylene isomerization catalyst that was later commercialized.
While working for a major process technology licensor, this expert was responsible for commissioning several new and revamped process units throughout the world. This expert also executed a demonstration plant project for a new biomass-to-liquid fuel process. This expert's management experience includes field services management supporting modular, on-site hydrogen generation systems, as well as commercial management with a renewable fuels company. This expert holds a Level 7 Certificate under the Regulated Qualifications Framework, accredited at master's level, for Legal Experience Training Advanced Professional Award in Expert Witness Evidence.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #269836
This air quality expert holds a Ph.D. and is a P.E. with over 30 years of experience assessing risks of environmental chemicals. This expert has presented projects and research at numerous conferences on topics including acid rain, dense gas plume dispersion, indoor air quality and dispersion modeling, ocean disposal of carbon dioxide, multi-pathway risk assessment, methods to estimate exposure point concentrations, vapor intrusion, landfill gas, and environmental applications of decision analysis methods. This expert earned a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from a well-regarded technical university and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from a prestigious technical institute.
This expert has experience evaluating Clean Air Act permitting issues, including Title V permits, emergency emissions provisions, and the Section 112(r)(1) General Duty Clause, which concerns regulated hazardous chemicals and safe management of those chemicals.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #277656
This mechanical and metallurgical engineering expert holds a PE and provides forensic and consulting engineering services using a combination of mechanical and metallurgical engineering experience, including plastics, along with related education. This expert is a registered professional engineer in Texas and more than 25 other states, with over 30 years of experience in manufacturing in the metals processing industries, over 30 years performing failure analyses, and over 25 years investigating claims. Assignments have involved mechanical equipment, appliances, oil and gas production and transmission equipment, plumbing, HVAC, heavy equipment, machine tools, cranes and wire cables, metal roofs, manufacturing and thermal processes, among many others.
Over the course of over 15 years, this expert has investigated a number of oilfield assignments, including pipelines, separators, heat treaters, workover rigs, drilling rigs, and associated equipment. This expert has worked with gas compression equipment at well sites and midstream locations, including diesel-driven and turbine-driven equipment, and with a variety of valves used in high-pressure applications, including those used with natural gas.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant. This expert has testified in a wide variety of matters, including personal injury and property damage, in both state and federal court, and has testified by deposition more than 150 times and in court more than 15 times. Expert opinions and testimony have never been excluded.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #278296
This fire/explosion causation expert has over 40 years of experience in fire/explosion investigation, reconstruction, and Fire Protection Engineering, and holds credentials as a Registered Professional Engineer, Certified Fire Investigator (IAAI), Certified Fire/Explosion Investigator (NAFI), and Registered Gas Distribution Professional.
This expert has experience with lithium battery fires and numerous other hazardous materials, including propane, natural gas, ammonium perchlorate, ammonium nitrate, fireworks-related materials, explosives, and magnesium, and has testified on several occasions.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #280529
This fuel blending expert earned an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and has expertise in chemical processing and engineering, with extensive experience in mixing processes involving miscible liquids, immiscible liquids, and solid-liquid suspensions in oil and gas industry applications. This expert's expertise includes blending crude oil and fuels, as well as handling asphaltenes and waxes in crude oil and fuels. This expert's experience also includes sizing and selecting processing equipment to ensure proper mixing and transport of crude oil and fuels.
This expert has testified in arbitration, providing opinions on process engineering issues involving the flow of oils and fuels in the oil and gas industry.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #282920
This gas burner, water heater, and ANSI certification expert provides professional management services through a consultancy focused on improving engineering and quality operations, technical program management, and general business development. The design and development process improvements include specification documentation, program scope, resource requirements, standardized Design for Manufacturing (DFM), and lean thinking concepts, with critical attention to details required for Total Quality Management (TQM) and 6? requirements to support safe, reliable products.
This expert is also a subject matter expert on HVAC systems, major appliances, and components, and has experience as a technical expert for investigation and litigation support. In addition to expertise with gas burners and water heaters, this expert has extensive experience with ANSI standards, including participating in the development of standards for gas appliances and sitting on the Z21/83 committee, which approved gas appliance and component standards. This expert also has experience with the ANSI Z21 Central Furnace Subcommittee, Z21.47/64, and Canadian Gas Association CGA 2.3.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #285168
This oil/gas metallurgical engineering expert has over 40 years of practical experience in metallurgical engineering, primarily in the oil and gas sector, with familiarity in fracking, extensive experience in oilfield corrosion, and experience in metallurgical consulting.
This expert's areas of particular expertise include oilfield metallurgy, heat treating, failure analysis, welding, material selection, specifications, and training. This expert holds a BS degree in materials science from a public university in Alabama and a master's degree in metallurgical engineering from a public university in Tennessee. This expert has served in senior metallurgy roles for major OEMs, managed a heat-treating company, led North American sales for an international specialty alloys mill, and performed full-time failure analysis as a senior analyst for a leading firm. This expert has authored various technical publications, including work on hardenability and sulfide stress cracking in steels, and is an adjunct professor of metallurgy, a lifetime member of a prominent welding society, a member of a corrosion engineering association, and has served in a leadership role for a professional materials engineering society chapter.
This expert has served as an expert in a case involving the failure of downhole tubulars and has experience witnessing lab work conducted by a third-party laboratory and coordinating this work with experts representing other parties. This expert also has extensive experience in failure analysis and the preparation of written reports.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #287002
This mechanical engineering/thermal sciences expert holds a PhD in mechanical engineering and is a licensed Professional Engineer in mechanical engineering in multiple states. This expert has over 15 years of experience evaluating the design and performance of water heaters, including gas-fired water heaters. This work has included investigating water heater failures and assessing water heater performance under a wide range of conditions. This expert also has experience developing and running testing programs for different types of water heaters.
This expert has committee experience involving NFPA 58: Liquefied Petroleum Gas Code, which applies to propane-fired appliances, including water heaters, and is also familiar with other codes and standards that apply to water heaters. This expert has extensive experience testifying at both trial and deposition, including on intellectual property matters.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #287485
This mechanical engineering design/test expert has over 35 years of experience working on hundreds of matters requiring comprehensive design analysis and testing using advanced analytical methods, applying broad-based mechanical engineering experience to analyze components, investigate failures of mechanical and process piping systems, and develop condition monitoring programs to enhance safety, integrity, and reliability. This expert has extensive hands-on experience with process hardware and is familiar with the application of valves, pumps, compressors, turbines, steam boilers, heat exchangers, tanks, filters, flanges, gasketed joints, and instrumentation and controls systems. Assessments have included product liability, product recall, construction delay, intellectual property claims, technology assessment, and business process improvements.
This expert has extensive experience in mechanical engineering design, analysis, and testing of flow equipment and systems used in a wide range of industrial and residential applications. While much of this work has involved preventing and analyzing failures associated with equipment and systems, this expert has also worked on intellectual property matters related to claim construction, infringement, validity, false advertising, and IPR issues involving flow equipment used in the oil and gas industry, as well as a matter involving a consumer appliance. Work has included Failure Modes and Effects analyses and other design-related risk assessments involving gas valves in transmission and distribution piping, burner inspections in combustion chambers and gas turbines, and failure analyses of gas dryers, water heaters, service head adapters, and associated valves and piping used in residential installations.
This expert is a Certified Functional Safety Expert (CFSE) for safety lifecycle per IEC 61511 and has facilitated numerous process hazard analyses (PHA), Hazard Identification (HAZID), Hazard and Operability (HAZOP), Job Hazard Analysis (JHA), failure-modes-and-system-effects (FMEA), and Pre-Start up Safety Review (PSSR) evaluations for FPSOs, LNG plants, and gas transmission and distribution systems. This expert also serves as a member of a prominent engineering codes and standards verification and validation subcommittee on computer modeling in energy systems and has held leadership roles within that group.
Start Gas Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #296551
This oil and gas engineering expert is a Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) who holds an M.Sc. in Engineering from a university in Texas and an undergraduate degree from another well-regarded university. Before opening an engineering firm, this expert served in a senior operations engineering role for a midstream energy company.
This expert has extensive background in mechanical engineering and direct experience in oil and gas operations, including chemical program management, sampling, optimization, project management, commissioning, operation, and maintenance of combustion turbines and RICE generator facilities. This expert is a licensed Mechanical Engineer with a master's degree in environmental engineering following undergraduate studies in biochemistry and genetics.
This expert's specialized background supports analysis of operational facts and sampling results as they contribute to contamination. This expert has a deep understanding of fuel oil properties, handling, and potential contamination pathways within closed systems, as well as experience conducting root cause analyses using established methods to identify the likely source and extent of such incidents.
This expert has prior expert witness and litigation consulting experience, including analysis, written reports, and testimony.
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